September 18, 2024 4:05 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Tupperware Brands has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company that revolutionized food storage decades ago says it plans to continue operating and will seek court approval for a sale. The filing comes after growing struggles to revitalize the business. Tupperware saw a resurgence during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but demand has since waned amid rising competition. And financial troubles have continued to pile up for the Florida company. Tupperware began to struggle as more families gave up making dinner from scratch and started dining out more. (Photo: AP)
November 19, 2023 7:02 am
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian health officials say at least 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital and will be transferred to Egypt. A U.N. team said earlier Sunday that 291 patients are left at Shifa Hospital including 32 babies in extremely critical condition after thousands of patients and displaced people left the day before. The Palestinian Red Crescent says the babies will be transferred to a hospital in the Egyptian border city of Rafah. Israel meanwhile signaled that it plans to expand its operations to southern Gaza, where it had told hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to seek refuge early in the war. Israel has long alleged that Hamas maintains a sprawling command post at Shifa, part of its wider accusation that the fighters use civilians as cover.
December 28, 2022 4:20 am
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Officials in New York say state and military police were sent to keep people from driving in snow-choked Buffalo. The Erie County executive said Tuesday that police are being positioned at entrances to Buffalo and at major intersections to enforce a ban on driving. Officials say more than 30 people died in the region. That’s in addition to about two dozen other deaths the huge storm caused around the country. And an emergency services commissioner in the Buffalo area says crews are keeping an eye on warmer weather forecast for later in the week that could bring a threat of flooding as the snow melts.
February 16, 2022 4:18 am
KATY, Texas (AP) – Two Texas sheriff deputies have been shot and wounded after exchanging gunfire with a suspect who was struck and killed. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the incident happened Tuesday night in Katy, Texas, about 30 miles west of Houston. Gonzalez said via Twitter that both officers were hospitalized with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. Gonzalez said the deputies responded to the scene after receiving reports of shots being fired. He said when deputies arrived the suspect shot at the deputies and the deputies returned fire. The deputies were hit and the suspect was declared dead at the scene.
March 23, 2021 4:08 am
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats say they are pushing toward a vote on expanded gun control measures as the nation reels from its second mass shooting in a week. President Joe Biden says “we have to act,” but prospects for any major changes were dim, for now, in the closely divided Congress. In brief remarks responding to the shooting, Biden urged Congress to move quickly to close the loopholes in the background check system and also to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed Tuesday morning to bring House-passed legislation that would require background checks for most all gun sales and transfers to the Senate floor, whether it will pass or not. The attack in Colorado killed 10 people, including a police officer.
May 25, 2020 3:40 am
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat when an earthquake struck during a live television interview. She interrupted Newshub host Ryan Bridge to tell him what was happening at the parliament complex. “We’re just having a bit of an earthquake here Ryan, quite a decent shake here,” she said, looking up and around the room. “But, um, if you see things moving behind me.” She continued with the interview and noted she was in a structurally sound place and not under any light fixtures. The quake was felt by thousands of New Zealanders getting ready to start their work weeks, but no major damage was reported.
August 6, 2019 4:16 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s military says North Korea fired unidentified projectiles twice into the sea as it continues to ramp up weapons tests amid stalemated nuclear negotiations with the United States. The launches on Tuesday came a day after the U.S. and South Korean militaries started scaled-down joint military exercises despite warnings from the North that the drills could derail fragile nuclear diplomacy. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says the projectiles were launched from an area near the North’s western coast and flew cross-country before landing in waters off the country’s eastern coast. It didn’t immediately say how far the projectiles flew. The North last week conducted two test-firings of what it described as a new rocket artillery system and conducted a short-range ballistic missile launch on July 25.
September 18, 2024 5:07 am
Red Lobster, known for its affordable seafood and cheddary biscuits, has exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved the casual seafood chain’s reorganization plan earlier this month, which included a lender group led by asset manager Fortress Investment Group acquiring the business. Red Lobster is now an independent, privately-held company with 545 restaurant locations in 44 states and four Canadian provinces.
November 18, 2023 5:06 am
SEATTLE (AP) — Election officials around the country are stocking up on the overdose reversal medication naloxone after a series of suspicious mailings — some containing traces of fentanyl — were sent to vote centers or government buildings in six states. The letters were delivered or intercepted this month in Georgia, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington and Kansas, in some cases prompting evacuations and delaying vote counting. Experts say there is little risk from incidental contact with the synthetic opioid, but officials outraged about the continued threats to election workers say they need to do everything they can to make the offices safe. The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating the letters.
December 28, 2022 4:19 am
VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican says Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s health has worsened over the past hours and doctors are constantly monitoring his condition. Pope Francis appealed Wednesday to the faithful to pray for his “very ill” predecessor “until the end.” A Vatican spokesperson said Francis went to visit the 95-year-old Benedict in the monastery on Vatican grounds where he has lived since retiring in February 2013. The spokesperson said Benedict’s situation “at the moment remains under control.” Benedict was the first pontiff to resign in 600 years. Earlier, Francis departed from prepared remarks to ask the faithful to pray for the retired pontiff. Benedict has become increasingly frail in recent years as he dedicated his post-papacy life to prayer and meditation. (Photo: ABC News)
